[jhb] Re: Weather!
- From: Gerry Winskill <gwinsk@xxxxxxx>
- To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:47:54 +0000
Mystery solved, I think.
I've just tried another Citation flight into Ronaldsway, in conditions
similar to yesterday, without yesterday's problems. This time I started
at Colerne.
Yesterday I'd been using the TB21GT, which had its engine running before
I loaded the Citation. I'm pretty sure that resulted in only one of the
Citation's engines running, which would account for the need of almost
full rudder. If that was the case I'm quite chuffed I managed a decent
ILS arrival. It does mean there's another item on my check list, the
minor detail of "both engines running?".
Gerry Winskill
Gerry Winskill wrote:
I thought I'd sample our weather, so, with Active Sky running, flew
the Citation from Liverpool to Ronaldsway.
It was difficult to hold the runway heading, once off the ground at
Speke. Once on AP the flight was OK until down to 140kias with the
APPR in and ILS captured. It just couldn't hold it and began to
rotate. With AP off and flying manually it couldn't handle Autorudder,
so that had to be disconnected and the Localiser held only by
resorting to a bootfull of rudder, held on throughout. Groundspeed on
finals was a very sedate 100 kts, though the clock was reading the
statutary 135.
By the time I was parked up I was cream crackered.
Off for a lie down.
Gerry Winskill
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